Quotes of: Mother Keyword

Susan Walker: If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't, you're only a nice man with a white beard like mother says.

Miracle on 34th Street

Brian: [Brian turns to his mother, responding to her comment about the silliness of "World of Mystery"] If you're gonna make fun, I just as soon watch it by myself.

Mysterious Skin

Roger Thornhill: No. No, Mother, I have not been drinking. No. No. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser.

North by Northwest

Roger Thornhill: When I was a little boy, I wouldn't even let my mother undress me. Eve Kendall: Well, you're a big boy now.

North by Northwest

Beth Jarrett: [to her mother about the platter she just broke] You know, I think this can be saved. It's a nice clean break.

Ordinary People

Flora: [speaking to Aunt Morag] My mother met my father when she was an opera singer in Luxembourg. Ada: [signing] That's enough. Flora: Why? [pos]

The Piano

Mother: She's on the phone now? Charlie, you've got to break up with her. Charlie: I can do that?

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Hiss: I tried to tell you, but no, no, no, you wouldn't listen. Your traps just never work. And now look what you've done to your mother's castle.

Robin Hood

Chihiro: What are all those stones? They look like little houses. Chihiro's Mother: Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

Spirited Away

[Linus has decided to cancel the wedding and the merger] Linus Larrabee: When's your mother's birthday? Miss McCardle: Why? Linus Larrabee: I'm sending her two thousand gardenias.

Sabrina

P.L. Travers: [to a mother] Will the child be a nuisance? It's an 11 hour flight! Jolly good! [after sitting down] P.L. Travers: I hope we crash!

Saving Mr. Banks

Mother Abbess: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.

The Sound of Music

Edward Ferrars: All I want - all I have ever wanted - is the quiet of a private life, but, eh, my mother is determined to see me distinguished.

Sense and Sensibility

Rapunzel: Too weak to handle myself out there, huh, Mother? [starts twirling frying pan] Rapunzel: Well... [laughs] Rapunzel: ...tell that to my frying pa... [accidentally hits herself with pan]

Tangled

Ruth: You're not to see that boy again. Do you understand me? Rose, I forbid it. Rose: Oh stop it, mother. You'll give yourself a nose bleed.

Titanic

Eva: You just can't get uncomfortable enough can you? Kevin: Uncomfortable? With my own mother?

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Wrist Victim: He was the guy who smashed my car up. It was brand new. Then he backed-up over my mother's wrist. She's elderly... and uses her wrist a lot.

Zelig

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the...

Christina Applegate

Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit. I do the alterations myself - I'm quite a seamstress - it's the influence of my Hungarian mother.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

Lynn Johnston

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

Patrick Carney